Anesthesia staffing is quickly becoming the defining constraint on ASC growth, not just as a workforce challenge, but as a structural shift in how surgery gets delivered. As shortages deepen, costs ...

General anesthesia is supposed to switch us off, yet patients often report emerging from the void with the eerie sense that “no time passed at all.” A growing group of researchers now suspects that ...

At this year's American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Acute Pain Medicine (ASRA) annual meeting, investigators at Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) presented significant studies leveraging ...

A provision buried in the Affordable Care Act already prohibits reimbursing certified registered nurse anesthetists at a lower rate than physicians for the same work. It just has never been enforced.

Anesthesia is an important tool for exploring human consciousness, but scientists still aren’t quite sure how it works, despite using it on patients for 170 years. A new study analyzes the brain under ...

North American Partners in Anesthesia, the exclusive provider of anesthesia services for the North Shore-LIJ Health System, has announced it worked collaboratively with the health system in selecting ...

Different doses lead to different effects on the body and the brain ...

A beluga whale at Chicago's Shedd Aquarium became the first known beluga whale to recover from general anesthesia after a successful surgery this week. The 12-year-old whale named Kimalu needed to ...